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Home Dictionary Name: drainageLand Drainage Act, 1930
Land Drainage Act, 1930 (English) (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 44) repeals all prior Land Drainage Acts, as well as many other Acts relating to drainage, and consolidates the existing law with amendments. Commissioners of Sewers are abolished. A system is set up to provide for the care of all watercourses whereby land is drained.There are two kinds of drainage districts, catchment areas and other drainage districts, either within, and subsidiary to, a catchment area, or outside it; each drainage district is governed by a drainage board, or a Catchment Board in the case of a catchment area.Catchment areas, the drainage of which directed to a main river, are set out in Part I., Schedule I., but they may be increased; each catchment area is governed by a Catchment Board constituted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, which has exclusive jurisdiction over the main river and general supervision over the drainage of the area and Drainage Boards (with representation of County Councils and Co...
Drainage
Drainage, Sanitary.--Drainage for sanitary purposes is regulated by Part II, ss. 14-52, of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, which provides (s. 39) that local authorities may enforce drainage of undrained houses, etc.Agricultural.--Drainage for agricultural purposes is provided for by the (English) Land Drainage Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 44), which provides for the constitution of drainage districts with their respective drainage boards, which districts are to consist of catchment areas or other drainage districts and any drainage districts or areas constituted under the (English) Land Drainage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 133), and any subsequent enactment subject to the provisions of the Act of 1930. Catchment Boards are appointed partly by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and partly by local authorities within the catchment area and partly by the Minister consulting internal Drainage Boards; see s. 3 of the (English) L.D. Act, 1930. Drainage Boards are elected by ow...
Drainage of house let furnished
Drainage of house let furnished. In letting a fur-nished house it is an established rule that it is fit for occupation, and in Wilson v. Finch-Hatton, (1877) 2 Ex D 336, this rule was applied to defective drainage of a London house, and the tenant who had quitted was held liable neither for the rent nor for use and occupation...
Sewer
Sewer, a trench or channel through which water or sewage flows.The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith, and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall name. They are a Court of record, and may proceed b jury, or upon their own view, and may make orders for the removal of annoyances, or the conservation of the sewers within their commission according to the customs of Romney Marsh, or otherwise. They may also assess necessary ra...
Ditch
Ditch, includes a culverted and a piped ditch, but not a water course vested in or under the control of a drainage authority, Land Drainage Act, 1976, sub-s. 40(4) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 559, p. 300....
Drain
Drain. By s. 343 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, the following definition is given for that Act if not inconsistent with the context:'Drain' means a drain used for the drainage of one building or of any buildings or yards appurtenant to buildings within the same curtilege.'Sewer' does not contain a drain as defined in this section, but, save as aforesaid, includes all sewers and drains used for the drainage of buildings and yards appurtenant to buildings. The definitions under the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, and amending Acts, gave rise to some uncertainty, see Humphery v. Young, (1903) 1 KB 44, and Travis v. Uttley, (1894) 1 QB 233, and see s. 90 of the 1936 Act.See PUBLIC SEWER....
Improvement of land
Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...
Land charge
Land charge, means a rent or annuity or principal moneys charged otherwise than by deed upon land under (English) Act of Parliament for securing to any person, the money spent by him, or under that Act, as a charge under the Land Drainage Act, 1861 (see DRAINAGE), or s. 20 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, for repayment of compensa-tion of tenant's improvements. See s. 4 of the Land Charges Registration and Searches Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 51), by s. 12 of which a 'land charge,' created after the commencement of that Act-i.e., after 1st January, 1889-is void against a purchaser for value of the land charged therewith, unless it has been registered in the 'Register of Charges,' in the manner mentioned in that Act, since transferred to the Land Registry by virtue of the Land Charges Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 26), repealed by the Land Charges Act,1925. By this Act the system of compulsory registration of charges over land has been greatly extended and no purchaser of land woul...
setback
setback the distance between a property line and the area where building can take place. Setbacks are used to assure space between buildings and from roads for a many of purposes including drainage and utilities. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
use
use 1 a : an arrangement in which property is granted to another with the trust and confidence that the grantor or another is entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of it see also trust Statute of Uses in the Important Laws section NOTE: Uses originated in early English law and were the origin of the modern trust. Uses became popular in medieval England, where they were often secretly employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response, the Statute of Uses was enacted in 1535. The purpose of the Statute was to execute the use, investing the legal ownership of the property in the cestui que use, or one entitled to the beneficial enjoyment, and abolishing the ownership of the grantee. The Statute did not have blanket application, however. Certain uses, particularly those in which the grantee was not merely a passive holder of the property, were not executed under the Statute. These uses were called trust...
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